Todd Stroger's final four candidates to oversee the county's new independent health services board were endorsed by a majority of county commissioners yesterday. Among the approving commissioners was Forrest Claypool, who voted against Stroger's previous nominees, saying they were "lacking proven success and experience in managing or turning around large and complex organizations." The four nominees are Dr. David Ansell, chief medical officer at Rush University Medical Center; Sister Sheila Lyne, CEO of Mercy Hospital and Medical Center; Warren Batts, a former top executive at seven major corporations and onetime chairman of Children’s Memorial Hospital; and Dr. Luis Muñoz, president and director of occupational medicine at WorkCare Medical Management Inc. and a founding member of the Illinois Hispanic Physician Association. more ›

The Cook County Board of Commissioners voted on Todd Stroger's picks to head up the "independent" health services board yesterday. Of his nine picks, they only approved six. Andrea Zopp, Jorge Ramirez, Quin Golden, Benn Greenspan, David Carvalho and Heather O'Donnell were approved by the board. It took two separate votes to approve O'Donnell, a policy director at the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability. Barbara Hillman, a union attorney, and F. Daniel Cantrell, an aide to U.S. Rep. Danny Davis (D-Chicago) were rejected, and Norman Bobins, former chairman of LaSalle Bank, withdrew his name before the vote. more ›